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About one per cent of cancer diagnosis and three per cent of deaths involves brain tumours and it gets one per cent of research funding.

Better understanding the “behaviours” of tumours is vital, it said.

Miss Jones, 26, who is from Chester, returned to her history PhD in January last year after six months off.

She said: “What I find personally quite difficult is that nobody knows why perfectly healthy young people get brain tumours. Nobody knows why you get them and the prognosis is pretty terrible.”

She was first diagnosed with vertigo by her GP in November 2011 and treated with tablets. She was diagnosed with the tumour through private care at the John Radcliffe Hospital in July 2012 and treated six days later on the NHS.

Brain Tumour Research chief executive Sue Farrington Smith said: “We know funding into brain tumours needs to increase to around £30m to £35m a year over a 10-year time frame.

“At the current rate of spend, it could take 100 years to find a cure.

The charity also wants a public register of research to tackle duplication of studies.

Dr Tony Peatfield, spokesman for the Medical Research Council (MRC), which makes funding decisions, said: “We currently spend £2.4m a year specifically on brain tumour research through the National Cancer Research Institute, and would welcome research applications that would increase this figure.”